Sentence examples for miserly about from inspiring English sources

He was miserly about parceling out his talent.

People who have money in the realm of abundance tend not to be miserly about it.

Convulsive speed of consumption, coupled with an unladylike appetite - like a bibliophagous hybrid of boa and goat - make me miserly about forking out for short-lived literary indulgences.

Despite numerous folk sayings about miserly people, the genetic and environmental architecture of the character trait of miserliness has been very rarely studied to date.

Many brought their wives and children and carried signs complaining about miserly pay.

His widowed mother, for instance, was not destitute, but middle-class -- though it's true she was miserly and secretive about her money.

(The weathered-looking set is by Dan Ostling, the bright, traditional costumes by Mara Blumenfeld.) We see the actors giving the good old-fashioned hard sell to buffo scenarios about miserly old men, conniving maids and wily harlequins.

Fully 70% of respondents are happy for intelligent machines to carry out jobs such as crop monitoring – but this falls to 49% once you start asking about household tasks, and to a miserly 23% when talking about medical operations in hospitals.

"It's not about being miserly.

Ms. Li teased her mother about her miserly ways, pointing out that her last clothing purchase was a decade ago.

The collection begins promisingly with "A Pair of Slippers," an entertaining story, published when James was 10, about a miserly Baghdad merchant done in by a Jamesian one-two punch of blinkered vision and hubris.